Improved rollers for wringing-machines



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

l STEPHEN R. W'ING, OF SANDVICH, ASSIGNOR TO LINDLY M. VING, OF

. WEST FAIJMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS. Y

IMP-Rowan RoLLERs Fon wRlNelNc-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of LettersPatent No. 35,283, dated May 13, 1862.

letters indicate like parts in each of the iig-1 ures.

.Figure l is a front elevation of the squeezers. Fig. 2 is a side elevatiou.` Fig. 3 is a section of one of the rollers cut lengthwise through the center.

The nature of `my invention consists in making one or both rollers of cork or covering them with cork, so as to make them sufficiently elastic to answerv the purpose intended; alsoiin some self-adjusting traversing guides for pressing up the edges of the cloth or clothes as they pass in between the rollers.

4 In the accompanying drawings, A A are two standards, which may be made in the form shown or in such other lorm as will answer the purpose, and providedwith two legs, B B, to each -standar-chas shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, which legs are'to be placed astride theV side of a tub to hold the squeezers when they7 are used. One of each pair of legs are provided with set-screws C C, which may be screwed against the tub to hold the standards firmly while thesqueezers are used. The standards A are connected at the top by the barD and at the bottom by the bar E and inclined boardF, which conducts the water into the tub that runs from the rollers.

The standards A are perforated for the shaft G of the lower roller, H, which shaft is provided with a crank, I, to turn it when squeezing the water from the cloth or clothes. V

The shaft or the journals ofthe shaft of the upper roller, J, turn in grooves in the standards A, and the boxes, one ofwhich is shown at K, bear 'onthe journals of the upper roller and press it against the lower one or onto thek cloth or clothes which pass between the rollers. The boxes K lare pressed onto the journals of the upper roller by springs, one of which is shown at L, and the pressure of the springs may be adjusted bythe screws in the standards, one of which is shown at N.

P P are traversing guides arranged to traverse on the bars R R, and are pressed toward each other by the springs S S, fastened to the standards A. These guides press up or in the edges of the cloth or clothes as they enterbetween the rollers.

The rollers I-I and .I are made of cork. They maybe made of a single piece if large or thick enough, or of a series of disks placed upon a shaft. In either case a metal disk should be fastened to theshaft, with two or more rods, T T, passing through it and through the disks of cork, and also through another metal disk at. ihe opposite end, and the rods provided with screwnuts to draw the metal disks t0- ward each other and clamp or press the cork disks together and hold them rmly and prevent the shafts from turning in the disks. When made in this way, if the central disks bccome worn byuse they can be taken off and put at the 'ends and the end disks putin the middle, and in this way the cork will last a long time. The cork, when wet, is so yield# 'ing that it will not break the buttons on the clothes, and the cork rollers can be made for one-third or less than on e-half the cost of rubber rollers, and are found in practical use to answer equally as good purpose as rubber.

I believe I have described and represented my improvements in squeezers so as to enable any person skilled in the art to make and use them. I will now state whatl desire to secure by Letters Patent.

I claiml. One or more rollers made of or covered withV cork, for the purpose specified, substantially as described.

2. The self-adjusting traversing guides for pressing in the edges of the cloth or clothes as they pass in between the rollers, as described.

STEPHEN R. WING.

Witnesses:

ZENAs HAMBLIN, ABIEL C. G EAHAM. 

